Necktie.



\ PatentedSept. 2, 1902.

' F. A. ARBE'NZ.

- NEGKTIE.

. (Application filed. Mar. 15, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK A.ARBENZ, OF HOBOKEN, NEWV JERSEY.

NECKTIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 708,192, dated September 2, 1902.

Application filed March 15 1901. Serial No. 51,295. (No model.)

thereof, showing it affixed upon the collar hook-button; and Fig. 3 is a rear view of a necktie provided with a modified form of my invention.

My invention relates to neckwear; and it consists of the hereinafter-described attachment to neckties, whereby the same may be safely affixed and held in proper position in relation to the collar. The attachment is designed to be used in connection with the hookbutton shown in the drawings and which, as I am advised, was designed for connecting the collar to the neckband of the shirt and at the same time for holding the band of a necktie from slipping upwardly.

My invention tends to provide an attachment for neckties whereby the same may be secured in front of the collar by means of such hook-button to hold it safely in proper position and so that it may not slide or drop off, as it sometimes happens,when the band of the necktie is accidentally disengaged.

The attachment consists of strips 00 and y, having their ends affixed to the back part of the bow of the necktie A, as shown in Fig. 1. The strips are approximately parallel and so near each other that when the hook-button B is inserted with its beak c projecting upwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, it engages with the upper strip 00, while the back bend of the collar hook-button engages with the lower strip.-

Both strips 00 and y are slightly longer than the width of the hook to permit some play as may be necessary to slide in the collar hookbutton. Strips 0a and y are affixed to the back of the necktie by stitching along all edges of their ends, as shown in Fig. 1. down collar the hook-button B is inserted with its beak c projecting upwardly. Spreads .dentally disengaged.

With a tu rnthe turn-down parts of the collar and pushed upwardly until the lower edge of the strip a: is brought in line with the point or beak 0. Then by pressing the necktie upon the'button-hook the beak thereof is slid underneath the strip 0:. Wardly until the upper edge of strip y slips over bend d of the collar hook-button. In this manner the necktie is safely affixed in proper position and there is no possibility of its slipping up or down or of its being acci- When a standing collar is worn, the button-hook is inserted with the point downwardly, and in affixing the necktie thereto the described procedure is reversed.

The arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings is designed for neckties to be worn with turn-down collars. For neckties to be worn with standing collars the strips are set correspondingly higher.

In Fig. 3 a modified construction of my improved attachment for neckties is shown, consisting of a somewhat wider strip 2, secured to the back of the necktie approximately in the center thereof, and two narrower strips or bands u and w, one above and the other below the same. This arrangement can be used on all kinds of neckties and is designed mainly for such which are worn with both turn-down and standing collars. When such form of attachment is used, the beak c of the hook-button is inserted, according to and what collar is to be used, at the lower or upper edge of the strip .2 and the bend (1 thereof, underneath the strip u or w, as the case may be.

I claim as my invention The necktie herein described,the same comprising a shield having centrally disposed upon its rear surface, a series of strips parallel with each other, attached at each of their extremities to the shield, but free between said extremities, whereby a collar hook-button may be inserted, as herein shown and described, between the strips and the shield.

FREDERICK A. ARBENZ.

Witnesses:

ROBERT VALENTINE MATHEWS, JOHN A. PAULsoN.

Then the necktie is drawn down-' 

